Sentence 1: Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).

Sentence 2: There was never an American performance to critique.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: no


Sentence 1: Beresford speaking.

Sentence 2: Beresford is talking to someone else.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell


Sentence 1: Shh." Her hands came up in complicated gestures.

Sentence 2: She waved her hands around in complex gestures.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
yes